Along with the many and mostly brief citations from Kuyper’s letters and texts, the statement from 1848 is included in this work (p. [11]). The article in which it is reproduced was first published in 2001 (see 2001.02). The document is also printed in facsimile—as the oldest preserved example of Kuyper’s handwriting—on the cover of the volume.

This volume of seven studies on Kuyper’s early life by Dr. J. Vree was published on the occasion of Vree’s retirement in 2006 from his position as university lecturer in the faculty of divinity at the Vrije Universiteit. The collection gives careful and detailed attention to Kuyper’s publicity work during his studies at the University of Leiden and during his years as a minister in Beesd, Utrecht, and Amsterdam.